Heard this epic bra story on NPR this morning. Fell in love with Ms. Betty Jenkins of Cincinnati, Ohio. Promised myself I wouldn’t wear plutonium push-up bra on flight to Portugal.
Archive > June 2008
I am leaving you; don’t try to follow me
Dearest readers, You may have heard rumors about my selling the Cuisinart, buying a plane ticket to the Old World, and alighting on that continent for the remainder of the summer. The rumors are true. The bbf and I leave for Cascais, Portugal, in a week. Do not try to follow me. Do not try [...]
Satisfying sound of the day
A fresh bagel, hurled by a bagel-boy, hitting the side of a car filled with college chicks. Thwap!
I am dragging Michael Ian Black into my windowless van and driving him some place really special so we can finally have some alone-time
Michael Ian Black, the man previously best known for his Taco Flavored Dorito work, is now featured in my blogroll. He’s finally achieved the superstar status he always wanted. I like Black’s website because he uses it to 1) publish and review his four-year-old daughter’s short stories; 2) promote drinking, gambling, and Don Cheadle; and [...]
You people are sick
I’ve put off doing this long enough. I now give you the various search terms that people have put into Google to find my website. These are all legit — straight from my stats page. “do grown men use baby wipes” “meth addict dating” “why are men afraid to have a baby?” “wife arm wrestling” [...]
This post is not about sports–it’s about men who play sports
Today Russia beat the Netherlands in double overtime, thereby advancing to the next round of the European Cup. Because I hate it when members of my family rattle on about end zones and face-offs and field goals without telling me what sport they’re discussing, let me first clarify that I’m talking about soccer. For all [...]
Bookforum’s links are amazing
It’s like they were written specifically for me. In the past 24 hours, Bookforum’s links range from interviews about politics with Playboy Bunnies to a comparison of Nietzsche and Derrida to a defense of rom-com fiction to an interview with Jhumpa Lahiri to an analysis of Lil Wayne’s new rap album. And they do that [...]
Bound to be jaded eventually
I’ve now been blogging long enough on the outskirts of the lit-blog circle to know that the same links are passed from blog to blog, we’re all competing to blog first about identical material, and only .0001 percent of us are getting book deals. I love the immediate gratification of posting – I still get [...]
What Would Emily Gould Do?
“WWEGD?” I ask myself in the midst of a major personal issue. Emily Gould would blog it to high heaven. But I am a woman who first revels in, then learns from, other peoples’ mistakes. Hence I will not blog about what’s On My Mind. Blogging about not blogging about something is a happy compromise. [...]
